Rodriguez tested positive

Boom! That's the nuclear bomb that just went off. We all suspected but I can't believe it actually made it out.

Is any really surprised about this news? This just confirms what most people suspected.

First off, Sox fan here. Second, the headline is idiotic. Does "The Yankees tumultuous offseason..." refer to the signing of the three top free agents available or Joe Torre's book about what we all already knew (Arod is a fraud & Cashman is a snake)? Arod is a bum, on or off of roids. He and half of MLB were on them and the league knew and chose to allow it to go on for years. This will have not impact anything. The Yankees modest upgrades are no match for the Sox superior pitching and defense.

please don't use the size argument. show me any in-shape person that doesn't get bigger from age 19 to age 32. don't worry. i'll wait.

now i'm not saying that i don't think a-rod used, but you have to use something else.

woo-hoo! A-Fraud indeed.

I'd be willing to bet that most of the Yankees have used Roids.If their teammates saw the cause and effects and were in anyways competitive they would be forced to do the same thing just to keep their jobs.I'd be checking Posada his knees are shot,and didn't he have a career year 2 years ago????Just another roid head making some Kwon.

Let's be clear about the larger ramifications: Bud Selig, Major League Baseball, the owners, and the union have all been knowing collaborators in illegal behavior.

Let's not forget that that it was revealed last year that that little, incompetent spoiled brat Theo Epstein knew all about Gagne's steroid use before he signed him.

A-Fraud is just another example that the MLB is thoroughly corrupt.

Once again Canseco is proven correct. Now what's left of A-Rod's public image is distroyed. No matter what you do from now on, Alex, you'll always be Barry Bonds Jr. Can’t wait to see his blushing face, pursed lips, and teary eyes as the boos--from Seattle to Boston--descend on him.

Was 2003 the year A-Rod stole the AL MVP from Big Papi? Or was that 2004??

A-Rod Juiced! How many Red Sox heroes from '03 and '04 are on that 104 name list? Millar? Damon? Was the '04 Series win juiced? Is Tek just getting old or is he off the juice? What happened to Poppi's pop? Was Shill's strange tendon injury in his ankle a fluke or the result of steroid use? Clearly George Mitchell will not have the last word on this. The whole sport is tainted.

They should just publish the list of all the players I am not convinced that the red sox would not have some one on the list at least we would have a better since of who are the cheats and go on from there. I also think that because mlb banned this stuff since 1991 even though ther wasn't any penalties that the awards these players received should not count.

Why did it take six years for this story to come out???

Look, they're all on SOMETHING. why is anyone surprised? If someone takes juice, it's not always visually apparent. C'mon people, this isn't just the yankees who have a steroid problem, the sox do too! And I am a red sox fan, NOT a yankees fan. I wish people would wisen up to the reality that nearly all professional athletes will do whatever it takes to get an edge. Olympics? ??? anyone?

As a born and raised Sox fan, i have to say that i am actually really disappointed about this. While i hate a-rod, i absolutely love baseball, and there was nothing more that i wanted to see than a CLEAN player take down that douche bag barry bonds home run "record," and a-rod is clearly the most likely favorite to even come close to that. I hate a-rod, but i completely respected him as the best player in baseball, until now. whats next, kenny griffy is gonna test positive? this sport just took a huge blow, and as a baseball fan, i am greatly disappointed that in 6-7 years when a-rod is breaking the greateast record in all of sports, it will once again be tainted.

Let the finger pointing begin!!

Because Selena Roberts ( who broke this story) has a book coming out in May about AROD. This is the same women who broke the Duke lacrosse story. Make your own judgements..

This is not an A-Rod problem its not a Yankee problem its turning into a BASEBALL problem until players get REAL bans and the players the owners and the union wakes up this is always going to be a cloud over this great game .
Here in Ireland and the UK u get caught in any sport taking drugs you are banned end of story so ban ANYONE caught using for 5 years and soon it would end

hate to say it fellow sox fans, but wouldnt be suprised one bit if nomar garciaparra's name is on that list as well...i think we would be naive to think that no red sox players ever used that crap as widespread as usage apparently was..remeber nomie's ripped s.i. cover after he also started out as a scrawny toothpick? look at the injury history that started to pile up for him once the roids scandals started to break and testing came around..look how quickly his skills eroded..the timeline of all this almost suggests his career began to fall apart right around the same time mlb finally started to take some kinda stance against steroids..

I wouldn't get too cocky about A-Rod testing positive. Let's be honest here. Ortiz's rise from platoon afterthought in Minnesota to all-world slugger with the Red Sox is more than a tad suspicious. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he also tested positive. I also wonder about guys like Ramirez who ballooned in size from their early years to their latter ones.

I wouldn't get too cocky about A-Rod testing positive. Let's be honest here. Ortiz's rise from platoon afterthought in Minnesota to all-world slugger with the Red Sox is more than a tad suspicious. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he also tested positive. I also wonder about guys like Ramirez who ballooned in size from their early years to their latter ones.

Susan, it was 2005

Far more worrying is the illegal way in which these results were obtained.

People come on! What do you expect? People competing at such a level have no room to be an inferior athlete. Thats right being natural is inferior to a enhanced athlete. Yeah, you could say Aaron did it all natural but no one is natural now. Being natural in a field full of superior athletes is a recipe for failure. No matter how much of the "good olde American hardwork and dedication" you put in, a superior enhanced athlete will walk all over you.

What a sad day for baseball fans, the game is truly tainted and the officials of MLG help ruin it thinking it would actually generate more interest. If i find out jeter was juicing as well i will stop watching baseball.

Junior Griffey: the only player of his era to hit 500+ homeruns without cheating.

Conseco must be smiling now.

It's bad enough for the economy to go in the tank, but for the "Stars" of Baseball to insult the fans and expect us to ever revere them is abominable. They don't even deserve an asterisk......they deserve to be banned. They make Pete Rose who at least bet "on his team" look like a paragon of virtue. I don't intend to invest my time and especially my money on major league baseball ever again. Sincerely, Wayne Christensen

Wall Street, Corporations, Sports.....corruption abounds in America. And now the "bail out" by the Neo-Marxists running our once great country.
I smell a Revolution coming. Not another American Revolution, but very much like the French Revolution. Sad for all of us, but we must clean house quickly or be sucked into the NWO.

Jeremy Brown:

agree. The author of this article (Adam Kilgore) has obviously never seen the inside of a weight room in his life. those before and after shots are certainly no indication that A-hole as been using steroids. Although I don't doubt the accusation, the assertion that "Despite his size (compare this A-Rod and this A-Rod)" is proof of steroids use is pretty funny. Red Sox!

what!? A-Fraud on steroids and testosterone?!

that's a surprise

What a bunch of steroid using, non-patriotic, stone dome, clowns there are in the MLB. Where are your morals?

It's redicoulous to expect that all-stars didnt use roids in the steroid era. I mean, considering that there were no serious repremimands, why wouldn't an athlete consider using perfomrance enhancers? And please, don't give me that "it's not good for the game, bs." When the millions of dollars you are earning are at risk of being diminished because fellow players are closing the gap with perfomrance enhancers, its only natural to use them yourself: especially when there was almost no penalty. Besides, steroid use is present in all sports, and their benefits outweigh the risks ten fold for professional athletes. Completely MLB's fault because they encouraged roid use by looking the other way during the roid era.

Oh, Boy...what a scoop! I believe with the ridiculous salaries offered, a major league player in any sport would be a fool not to "drug up to keep up" with his compatriots. How naive are some people!

This is just sad. I've always disliked A-Rod, but he was such a natural talent when he came into the league with Seattle, it was hard not to admire him if you're a fan of the game. Now, he's in the same category as Clemens and Bonds. I think its time for Selig and all the other upper management guys that were complicit in this to go. And we need to set up a government commission to oversee performance enhancing drugs in professional sports; obviously the leagues are incapable of controlling it independently. Again, this is just a tragedy. Americans take great pride in our athletes, and now they're a source of international embarrassment.

As a fan who has attended many Yankee games, I feel defrauded yet again by such news. As fans, we endure huge ticket and concession prices to see these people play. And all along, they are not the sportsmen we think but a chemical Frankenstein. I say limit his pay to. In fact as a fan, I want my money back. Punish him, otherwise, it makes it okay for others to follow in his footsteps.

The Phillies have saved baseball. A young, clean team represents the game as champions. hoorah!!!

Like with so many polls, I can't vote, because my opinions about rodriguez, illegal performance enhancing drugs, career marks, and the behavior of mlb, players and management, don't correspond to the answers you provide. Rodriguez's career has been marked by a consistency not seen with Bonds and Clemens. What epidemic? 104 players out of about 1100 in mlb tested positive in 2003. This is about 9%. 91% tested clean. Worried about Red Sox players on the list? No. It is well understood that Garciaparra and Damon were users. It is a shame that the entire list hasn't been published.

"Because Selena Roberts ( who broke this story) has a book coming out in May about AROD. This is the same women who broke the Duke lacrosse story. Make your own judgements.."

It was Samiha Khanna and Anne Blythe who broke the Duke story, not Selena Roberts. Get your facts straight.

If A-Rod was juiced, he should go down in flames just like Bonds & all the others.

A-Fraud!

How about we stop revering athletes as "role models" in the first place? Too many of them are self-absorbed punks and outright criminals (in the case of numerous football players these days). Brainpower and science are far more important to solving society's problems than athletic/showbiz skills. Athletic ability was mainly needed when wars were fought with swords and hunting was done without guns. Getting kids off drugs through sports is good, but sports is largely about one-upsmanship and pettiness these days, if there was ever such a thing as "healthy competition" at the pro level. Players are driven to use steroids for those very reasons. It's time for a general shifting of priorities in who we idolize.

A-Fraud? How about A-Roid.

Yeah, guys do get bigger (sometimes) when they go from their 20's to their 30's. But I don't think their craniums are supposed to grow LARGER like in the case of Barry Bonds. A-Rod is a fraud...it's about time this came to the forefront.

Where is the WHOLE list. Why just parts here and there. If they would release the whole dang thing we could try and move on. We all know it. Players have always tried to get an edge. I say let all the substances be legal let them do it all. Who cares. We think it anyway. If ur not cheating ur not trying hard enough!
Ps (mets fan. Sorry sox guys. And yes 86 was a great year!$

A player that takes performance enhancement drugs of any kind, in any sport is a cheater and none should ever be allowed into the Hall of Fame or included in any record setting list.

The steroids are much worse than Pete Rose's gambling. His on field accomplishments should stand on their own!

Listen up Dudes..
Baseball is nothing more than a corruption of the English game of CRICKET.
And with corruption come corrupt players
Deal with it.

t. ..As long as your paid millions by how you perform...this becomes a business reality. This is the entertainment industry ... nothing more and nothing less.

I used to be a fan, but MLB you let steroids happen. You have enabled salaries to crush your fan base with players who have soaked up more money than a small towns entire salary base. Who would spend exhorbitant ticket prices to watch a bunch of druggies out there cheating the record books. All I can say is Willie Mays, Duke Snider, Don Drysdale, Warren Spawn, Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and all the rest, you were all truly the best. I will forever be your fan, and to the rest of you druggies I hope they wipe "our" record books clean.

I used to be a fan, but MLB you let steroids happen. You have enabled salaries to crush your fan base with players who have soaked up more money than a small towns entire salary base. Who would spend exhorbitant ticket prices to watch a bunch of druggies out there cheating the record books. All I can say is Willie Mays, Duke Snider, Don Drysdale, Warren Spawn, Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and all the rest, you were all truly the best. I will forever be your fan, and to the rest of you druggies I hope they wipe "our" record books clean.

Why would this affect the Yankees? It took place while he was with the Texas Rangers!

I think the Globe staff needs to learn the significance of dates and timelines!

It is more and more obvious that the use of performance-enhancing drugs has been widespread over a certain period of time, 1980s or before into the early 2000's at least. What it means at the least is that comparing the statistics of different eras is impossible. For example, Babe Ruth's and Henry Aaron's home run totals cannot be compared to post-1980. I remember thinking during the McGuire-Sosa battle that it appeared too easy for them to hit home runs. It is sad, tragic even. We can no longer compare eras at all.

"Ortiz's rise from platoon afterthought in Minnesota to all-world slugger with the Red Sox is more than a tad suspicious."

Not if you actually look at his numbers.

Selena Roberts Slurs Innocent Duke Lacrosse Players, Again
Times sports columnist Selena Roberts attacks innocent Duke players with sarcasm and accusations of white privilege: "Don't mess with Duke, though. To shine a light on its integrity has been treated by the irrational mighty as a threat to white privilege....lay off the lacrosse pipeline to Wall Street, excuse the khaki-pants crowd of SAT wonder kids."

She can stick this A-rod story and si up her A-hole

Since these are paid "gladiators", who cares if they use steroids" ??? Its their life and their free-choice; play now / pay later seems to be the American way....not just in sports.

*asterisk!*

All of the Yankee's and all of the Sox's are on roids. In fact, all of the athletes in the world competing at a professional level take juice. They all talk about how wide spread it is, so it is time society gets over it realizes this and legalizes the stuff. You can not effectively regulate a substance if it is illegal. The only way you can control who intakes it is place it in the hands of doctors with a paper trail. Cheating will always be a part of competition. In tens years, you will have athletes that were genetically modified in a sperm bank and hormone therapy treatment that makes normal men like gods. How will you stop that? Baseball will die and I say thank god, its rediculously boring anyway.

The idiotic thing is that the sports writers and announcers keep referring to to the early 2000's as the "steroid era." Just because the players have found ways to mask their steroid use now, doesn't mean that the steroid era has ended. It is still alive and well and will remain alive and well as long as MLB and the players' union insist on pretending that it doesn't exist and refuse to do anything about it.

All of the Yankee's and all of the Sox's are on roids. In fact, all of the athletes in the world competing at a professional level take juice. They all talk about how wide spread it is, so it is time society gets over it realizes this and legalizes the stuff. You can not effectively regulate a substance if it is illegal. The only way you can control who intakes it is place it in the hands of doctors with a paper trail. Cheating will always be a part of competition. In tens years, you will have athletes that were genetically modified in a sperm bank and hormone therapy treatment that makes normal men like gods. How will you stop that? Baseball will die and I say thank god, its rediculously boring anyway.

well A rod now has maddona to hide behind after all this

It's plain to see it was all over...every team. Any player achievements from about the early to mid 90's to about a year or two ago must be looked upon with suspicion.

It's plain to see it was all over...every team. Any player achievements from about the early to mid 90's to about a year or two ago must be looked upon with suspicion.

He stole my nickname!

- A-Roid

A-ROID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He goes from a A-ROD to an A-FRAUD and now an " A-ROID".

Wow, no wonder A-ROID idolized Jeter. Jeter the consumate professional and A-ROID the low down Boras client good for nothing cheater. Boras, do you job and consult your client.

Why do people act so surprised. ?? The rumors are true. ..Imagine that....Now if they'd only be able to prove the rumors about Obama. ...but theres still hope...

A-Fraud has his big paycheck. So what if he's a roid rage. My HS football team used to win state championships. Our star RB was a roid user. If it's that common at the HS level, what do you thing it is at the college level, let alone big $$$ pro level. Roids = Lottery win. Look at these loser's attitudes. They don't care about anything. They got their fame and fortune and they will lie about it to the grave. It's a sad group of losers. I'm giving up sports for the high paid world of non-profit CEO salaries. At least they are ripping people off for a good cause and not just a game.

how does this happen, a baseball palyer tests positive, and we find out about it 6 years later. Some players carrers are shorter than that. I f he was a cyclist, he would have been stripped of every thing and banned for 2 years, and that's before a faulty test could be rebutted. And the results would have been leaked before MR Rod would have even been notified.

How about this, after every game 10% of the winners players are tested, 20% of the losers. along with a madatory test for every player who hit a home run, or has a batting average over 600

ALL OF YOU RED SOX FANS ARE A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES...I BET HALF YOUR TEAM WAS DOING JUICE INCLUDING SHILLING PAPI MANNY AND VARITEK! SO GET LOST AND GET A LIFE!

Before Giambino ... Rocket .... Now A-Rod....... sorry A-Fraud !!! Yanks fans are going to talk about Sox players. They do not accept the fact that their star players are cheaters. Please stop making excuses!!!!!!!!!!!

You could NOT have asked for better timing on this story.....RIGHT before Spring Training........I can't wait until the first Sox Series on 4/24!!!!!!!! A-ROID!!!!!

Alot of people owe Jose Conseco an apology. Jose told everyone that A-Rod and several other players were using or had used steroids. No one believed him and talked trash about Jose. Now look, it's all coming out now. I'm sure there's more to come.

I only hope that if some Red Sox players are named RSN will react differently than the hordes of Yankee aficianados who did everything but circle the wagons trying to make one excuse after another for Roger Clemens last year, or were in complete denial that "their boy" was a filthy rotten cheater. As for A-Rod, all he has done is further inflame all those fans who already hate the guy and added another nickhame to his ensembe----A-Roids.
As for owner John Henry, when the hell is he finally going to re-issue Clemens" #21 to a deserving member of the Red Sox. To keep that uniform number in drydock is an absolute disgrace to all Red Sox fans.

Anyone who claims surprise is delusional, or worse.

...and it took FIVE YEARS for this information to come out? I'm sorry, but anytime there is major money at stake, there will be some degree of cheating involved to gain an advantage.

Watch local school teams: high school, college. There's way more competition. I've been done with major league sports for a while because of the drugs. Some idols they turn out to be.

God Bless America.

A-Roids got caught. I wonder how he'll cry about it now.

But seriously, this is a big problem in all of baseball and I wouldn't be surprised if Red Sox players are on it too. But at least we now know that the big egoistic crybaby A-Roids is no different than everyone else. This makes players who are small like Ichiro, Pedroia, etc a lot more respectable (assuming of course that their not on roids too).

orza is accused of tipping off players to their upcoming testing. that makes him and the mlbpa liars and complicit in the ongoing cover-up of the use of PEDs by their members.

I love steroids!!!

And they get mad at Phelps for smoking some pot?!?! He should be completely banned from playing ever again. Period.

You are all Hippocrates, and you know it.....
This steroid period is over, let's put it past us, essentially everyone used it.
And why pick on baseball...why is baseball held to a higher standard than any another sport.
Its all B.S., don't fall victim to the Sports entertainment uber-hype industry. That whips everybody into a frenzy, so that they can generate an easy audience, to read easy to write copy, to sell ads, that generates easy $$$$, in order to sustain the bloated sports infotainment industry.

dont

I freaken hate sports.I should have died in the 50's

I say put all the names out there,lets pu t a stop to all this. take them to court by the bunches. they took all the fun out of sports

Let's see the entire list.

I've Never thought as this guy as the best player in baseball..He is a poser& a Phony..you want to see the REAL A-Rod...look at his stats in post season..when it mattered most..he has Never hit his weight..in post season..on..or off roids!!!
I Need the Yankee fans to keep telling me about "Yankee Pride..& Tradition..."
Yeah..Yeah ...Yeah... I know...you've got 26 rings....blahhh blah..blah...
The best part about the Yankees& A-Rod....is YOU'VE got him for the next 9 yrs
"Yankee Pride& Tradition"...Youre welcome to it...Now go BOO Jeter in May Again!!

NoooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooOOOOOOO!!!!! Say it ain't so A-Rod.

The Curse of Madonna continues. First Canseco now A-Rod.

Say what you want about Canseco but he's been pretty much right on the money with his claims

I went to SI.com (which according to this post, reported this information). The quote is as follows:

"In 2003, when he won the American League home run title and the AL Most Valuable Player award as a shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, four sources have independently told Sports Illustrated."

four sources??? FOUR SOURCES??? This is worse than something you might read in a gossip magazine!!

If this is all fact than no delay should tolirated. Out he should go and all records regarding his sucess should be clensed. He cheated plain and simple. With his damm multi million dollar paychecks he should be ashamed of himself. He liar about this for the last few years. Cheaters should not be in the game. Off wioth him...

A-Rod is just one of many. If you think the Sox are not involved with the same, you've got your head in the sand.

My mom always said...never spit in the air cause it can come back and hit you in the face. At least his brother doesnt molest children.

Ummm... Keith... It affects the Yankees because A-Roid is now a Yankee. If he was with the Diamondbacks this year it would be their issue. There is little doubt that he continued doing drugs while in pinstripes. The whole friggin lot has ruined America's game, and Selig has been the captain of this Titanic.
This is what happens when the player union becomes too strong. Baseball is afraid to impose harsh penalties because it fears another strike. "Joe 6-pack" can't afford to go to more than two games a year with his kids (if that). Let 'em stike. Let the whole MLB burn to the ground!
What will be reborn in it's place would be a purer game. Hopefully one that the average fan could actually afford to attend! Baseball itself will never die. It is played on too many sandlots for that to happen.
We should be spending out millions of dollars on better education for the next generation, on better healthcare, and defending our contry.
We shouldn't be giving it to a bunch of whining idiots who no longer play for the love of the game and complain because they're "only" making $15m this year and need to make more off of the backs of the hardworking fan.
WAKE UP!

It will be fun watching this FRAUD come to Fenway again and stink up the joint...Oh Henry Aaron where have you gone???

The nicknames are fun....."And now introducing the left-side of the Yankees infield, Cheater and Jeter...." Hope you ticket-holders make up some great signs so we 'distant Citizens' can enjoy the razzing from afar...hats off to Jose-hasn't been proved wrong yet.

So A-Rod used 'roids? Big freakin' deal. He and 90% of MLB players have used and are using them. No one cares but jealous loser redsux fans (like the motormouths at ESPN) trying to make a little hay with this non-news. The playing field is level because they all do it -- especially that truckdriver redneck catcher for the bosux. What a loser he is. And where was big Poopy last year without Manny? Hahaha.

"In a December 2007 interview with "60 Minutes," three days after George Mitchell's report on drugs in the sport was released, Rodriguez denied using performance-enhancing drugs"

What a filthy arrogant despicable LIAR. A -Fraud indeed.

At least McGuire was smart enough to say he wouldn't talk about" that old stuff"
but not arrogant Clemens and A-Fraud. They lie their arrogant asses off.
I hope A-Fraud gets booed into oblivian this year. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

6 independent sources have just confirmed to me that the steroid user in the Boston club house is.....John Henry. I knew it........

brasstacks..if you believe only 9 % of players were on steroids i've got a bridge to sell you.ever heard of "the clear" thg,hence the name. the truth is this systematic abuse of steroids has been going on since the late 80's or early 90's perhaps. Kirk Gibson won the mvp in '88 i think his line was something like .279 ,25,76. today they expect a catcher to do that.those stats would make him no more than an average player in this current climate. and if you think mlb doesn't know anything about this wake up. it's money in there pocket. do you honestly think they want the supposed best player in the game to be exposed as a fraud?

Just got my opening day tix, got my Yankee tix lined up. All that's left are the non-stop A-Roid chants coming from the stands.

I cannot wait for ball season to begin........

when he was here (seattle), i never liked the guy for the same reason no one really does: his fakey-ness. having said that, i alway felt he was the best player i had ever seen and an absolute given to break a bunch of major records, the all-time home run record being among them. call me naive, but i never put any credence into the rumors that he was on 'roids--i thought it was just the haters hating. im truly stunned that he's a juicer. and as much as i dislike the guy, i still believe that he would have been a record breaker without the stuff. but who cares anymore? alex lived down to his personality. bummer, dude.

A-Roid WAS a scumbag liar that at least the Yank lovers could say was gonna break all of Bonds or McGwire's records, ha! All that money and no rings! What really makes me mad is the fact MLB tried to sweep this under the rug and legally there are some serious laws being broken! Not fulfilling a warrant issued by the federal gov. should be sending MLB officials to jail but hey they'll buy their way out of it or just be slapped on the wrist. Of course if I witheld evidence from a search warrant in a federal drug probe I'd be looking at least 10 years! MLB is killing itself and anyone that thinks it's wrong to out these players is showing no respect for all the players that legally broke records! yeah, even Sox players!

It's pretty sad that owners knew about these test results and they STILL paid crazy money for the likes of an A-roid. Look at the Brewers; they paid $10M for a fraud closer who couldn't close without drugs pumping through his body. The team even knew about it publically, but the mindset was so entrenched, that they still wasted a ton of money for the merits of steroids.

If Selig is so tough, then let's see him erase these records. Oh yeah, he was one of those owners who ignored the steroid use for the bottom line and then played stupid, of which he really didn't need to play.

Baseball is the national shame in a time when we need something to cheer about. We are so desperate for people of sound character that we embrace a drunk and druggie because that's all he is after winning 14 gold medals. Thank God he didn't use steroids and only uses stupid judgment, on a regular basis, that might get someone killed in a car accident. Yeah, that's my hero.

It takes a plane wreck for people to see men and women of real character and integrity do exist. It's funny how money and fame weren't required for them. Forget Hollywood. Forget sports. They are losers. Your real hero is the person with integrity and courage to do what is right when no one cares to even look.

The only true hero in all of this steroid drama shall be Jone Canseco! He might be a slimeball but he knew the others in his ilk as well ... he has hit the target everytime he's pointed a finger!

From A-fraud to St-A-roid. Conseco is looking prety.

Whoever it was that criticized the column because it "only" had four sources and likened it to a gossip mag ...

Most news, of any sort, breaks with one or two sources at best. Four sources is a goldmine.

And, when confronted, A-Rod didn't profess his innocence. He told Roberts to go talk to the union.

OMG! Jose Canseco’s right AGAIN!

Wouldn't steroids allow him to get hits in the playoffs?

A-Roid did it to himself, like all the other cheaters in the MLB. I think his MVP should be revoked.

proof that the Yankees need to cheat to in order to win.

Did ted Williams use steroids ????????

Who cares? I wouldn't be surprised if someone on the Sox used it at one time in the early 2000s. This kind of "revelation" is anything but. It's just sensationalist crap from sportswriters who either need something to write about or should be working for the Enquirer.

I'd ease up on the comments about cheating and all that for right now at least and think about the fact there are 104 guys in this with A-Fraud. If his name is out, and it has to be the biggest because there is none bigger, then the rest wil be trickling along at some point. This is the 2003-2004 timeframe too which is when we beat them and broke the curse. Out of 104, how many are Sox? That won't feel so good if it happens. Overall it's also bad for the game too.

Suspend him from baseball. Enough is enough with steroids. He's still on them!

No surprise, really.
We knew A-Rod was a cheat and now we just have the evidence that he is a fraud.
We also knew the Yankees as a club to sweeip something like this under the rug.

Just a note for Jeremy Brown...

I am an "in-shape person" who hasn't gotten much bigger from age 19 (150lbs.) to age 32 (current age, weight 155lbs.). I lift 3x's/wk and have gotten stronger but overall weight has remained close to the same.

Sometimes to get over a hump (as far as building muscle mass) supplements are the only successful way to do so (some leagal, many illegal).

Wow this is a surprise. NOT!! I bet that's why his teammates call him A-Fraud. I wonder if Manny was juiced.

nah O_o

Guess what, it doesn't really matter, because in 2003 Steroids were not specifically banned. So A-Rod took a substance that was perfectly legal to do so at the time, he's no more guilty than other Athletes that did something to improve performance.
Baseball needs to do what South Africa did ( Truth & Reconciliation process), and have hearings to determine who did what, when, with no repercussions. Then we need to put it behind us and look to the future.
I don't support steroid use, and do not condone it, Yes I think Mike Greenwell was probably beaten out on the MVP award by someone who took serious health risks to "improve" themselves. Let's get it out in the open, look at the problem and put it past us.

Nothing should surprise us anymore. I love the Sox and hate the Yankess. But Papi could be on the list, Manny, Youk. Let's get real. We don't know any of these guys personally. I say throw everyone on the list of the game that ever used steroids. No excuses, no apologies whoever used roids they are cheaters.
Again, caution there are over 100 more names. Let's publish it and clean up the game.

A cheat is a cheat whether it is a politician, a thief, a CEO or athlete. As long as we accept this kind of behavior it will be the cheaters that come out on top. If it turns out that any Red Sox are on steroids, we should get rid of them.

We have known for a while that MLB is the same as professional wrestling - a joke. MLB = WWF.

To all those Bond's haters who say A-Rod is Aaron's hier, I say "Long live Henry. The once, present, and future home-run King!"

To all those Bond's haters who said A-Rod was the true heir to Aarons throne, I say "Long live Henry! The once, present, and future home run King."

There needs to be an "All of the above" option on that survey.

I definitely think that A-Rod's numbers should be questioned. Here's a man who tested positive for steroids the year he was named MVP, and who's career numbers get him a ton of attention and money. If any part of those numbers are steroid-inflated, that's a problem. And I think that there's no reason to use steroids, hormones, or chemicals to be a better player except for the money. I think he's a cheat, just like Clemens, Bonds, and the rest.

At the same time, I DO think that this is a problem throughout baseball, and we're not going to address it just by whining about A-Rod. There are plenty of minor league players who have been penalized for steroid use, and in more recent years than 2003. We need to address the entire issue; A-Rod is NOT unique (or at least not because of his steroid use).

And finally, since I do believe it's a wide-spread issue, and given the fact that there are more names on that list, chances are that at least one player in our organization might be implicated. Right now, it's easy to taunt A-Rod or talk about how Clemens is a cheat. But if one of our own has been doing the same thing, we have to hold him just as responsible. I hope I'm wrong, and that not a single Red Sox player, or minor leaguer, is implicated, but it IS an issue that is pervasive in this sport.

"So A-Rod took a substance that was perfectly legal to do so at the time"

No doufus Dennis A. It was illegal in the USA. MLB banned anabolic steroids in 2002 but didn't have testing or penalties.

Glad to see the Mitchell Report had such a positive effect on baseball. Maybe that is the reason George Mitchell is now working on Middle East Peace!

First and foremost, this is not a Yankee/Red Sox issue. Any fan of either team who believes that the Giambi brothers, Sheffield and Arod are the only juicers to play for the 2 teams is extremely naive. Throwing shots at the Yankees as a team over this only makes one look hypocritical and in denial of our own unaired dirty laundry. Just remember that while the Mitchell Report was embarrassingly incomplete and biased, we had Mitchell watching our backs.

One important thing that it seems everybody in America is not getting is that while MLB collected over 1,200 tests in 2003 with 'only' 104 coming back positive (wink, wink), you can only test for what you know is out there. Victor Conte put it best when he said that there are dozens, perhaps hundreds of other Victor Contes out there designing new and undetectable PEDs in labs and basements around the world. The BALCO drugs were basically accidentally discovered, and since there were no known samples of some substances to test against, an athlete would naturally come up clean on a drug test.

Every sport has been heavily tainted by PEDs in the last 2 decades. Most of MLB players flew under the radar in the PED inquisition simply because the average player puts up pedestrian to very good stats. I look at a guy like Shane Spencer as a perfect example of someone who probably would have never made the bigs were it not for PEDs. He came from nowhere at the age of 26 to hit 10 HRs in Sept 98 and flamed out quickly. There were hundreds of other marginal players who got the artificial boost to become Major Leaguers. Pitchers and catchers, who benefit the most for their muscle recovery advantages, flew the furthest under the radar (except I-Rod) since everyone wrongly thinks that the guys with the big HR #s are the biggest juicers. Guys like Arod and Bonds already possessed incredible God-given ability that was additionally enhanced by the drugs they took (or take).

Fairly or unfairly, MLB has been the lightning-rod sport in the steroid controversy but I am very confident that over 80% of all world-class athletes are tainted. Its the only way to compete on a level field today. Steroids don't just make you stronger, but also improve vision and muscle-twitch reaction which translates to body motion speed. How today's NBA and NHL don't face the same wrath as MLB blows my mind. Today's players are houses compared to 2 decades ago. I see my favorite college basketball players get a foot wider before their first season begins in the NBA. The NFL has been a bad joke as far as drug testing for more than just the past 2 decades. Anyone ever link roid rage to the obscene amount of off-field arrests and problems in the NFL and NBA? Even the LPGA gave their players 2 years to clean up their acts since they announced drug testing for the 2008 season in 2006. We watched Anna Sorrenstam turn into a man and the rest of these 'women' get bigger and bigger. The PGA's courses are now 30 yards longer per hole. Trust me, it isn't because of Tiger Woods, it's the juice.

Arod will face a lot of venom for this like-we-didn't-already-know-it moment. Unfairly, the majority of the rest of the players in the game get a pass for not getting caught. There will not be much criticism from the players in the game since they too are guilty and can't get caught up in the hypocrisy. More than the fans, its the history of the game that was cheated, cheated right out of the record books

well, now we have a new nickname and a new chant for all around the league...

Ster-rod!

Yankee 2009 Season is done. 3rd place again.

Talk about a reversal of fortune in the early 21st century. Remember when the Red Sox were the team that made lousy personnel decisions? Looks like that torch has been passed to the baseball executives in the Bronx. A $275 million contract paid over 10 years to an aging, seemingly cursed player who has never even played in a World Series. Nice one there, Hank, Hal, and Cash.

I said it once. I'll say it again. Professional wrestling is the last pure sport !

Yet another reason I'm happy we didn't get him after 2003. I might have admired his accomplishments but I don't like him. (At least what is revealed to us.)

So if he were again to hit a 9th inning homer off of Paps this year that puts the Yanks ahead in a game, is it followed by a collective Fenway groan and exodus from the park? Or do 35,000 fans stand up when he goes into the dugout ... and the next inning comes out to play third, only to be serenaded with deafening chants?

BFD. Who cares, the economy is in the crapper, the world is at war and all anyone cares about is whether a million dollar baseball player takes performance enhancing drugs, boy, you people need to get a life. Boston has a bunch of baseball retards running around, I can hardly wait for another season of knuckleheads and their "beloved" red sox. You can tease the crap out of this guy,
he still wakes up next to Madonna and laughs all the way to the bank. Who cares. Baseball is for people who like to sit on their butts and watch the world go to sh*t before their eyes, lucky if anyone gets any credit for doing the type of volunteering necessary to make this a liveable situation this summer, we will all be busy following A-Rod and Varitek and paying top dollar for the opportunity.
While jon henry marries his child bride, and you morons wake up with "did you watch the sox last night". F&CK the Red Sox, and F&ck the yankees as well.
Your all a bunch of baseball morons.

How many players did he undermine to get his position and contract? It's the Mike Greenwell scenario all over, again. One plays fairly and gets nothing; the other cheats and gets rewarded.

The absolute worst part of the whole deal is the attitude that these cheaters display when they go up for a contract and face the public...as though they are HONESTLY better than everyone else. The TRUTH is: they are better LIARS!

This guy ought to be put through the $250m ringer- pronto!

Bonds - Kimberly Bell
Clemens - Mindy McCready
A-Rod - Toronto stripper / Madonna

at least we haven't heard from any mistresses of McGwire.

Typical Yankee fans . RED SOX PLAYERS ARE NOT NAMED. Your A-Fraud was so until the list is named shut up.

Typical of you to start whining about the red sox now that your player has been named a cheat. If he cheated in 03 he did it in 04

Didn't the owner of the Texas Rangers know enough to stop this back when it was happening? Now what was that liar's name again??? Oh Yeah....................

If you ask me the real issue with all this steroids nonsense is that the only ones who are punished for it are us fans. With each inflated stat comes an athlete who receives and inflated contract. We are the ones who end up footing the bill. Not the owners, they just pass along the expense to us hard working HONEST fans and turn a blind eye to the illegal use of PEDs. For the above poster who justifies that it was no illegal in 2003, open your eyes. It is illegal in the USA where these players happen to live and work, so it was illegal. I am sure, even you can understand this.....

I never knew steroids turned your lips purple.

THIS is the reason why the Sox passed on A-Rod in 2003!

Guilty

The owners did not know who was on the list.
That was MLB. The files came out now because prosecutors supoened them, and the prosecutors office leaked them (sorry for botching the spelling).

There are some roids out there (including A-rod's) that don't make you bulk up but still give you the strenght.

Guess we have to wait for someone else "clean" to break the record. Go Hank

Baseball is not a sacred sport as some purists like to paint it. Its just another facet to make a living. Its not what we do in this life to make us great, its what we do for others to help them succeed.
Stop looking to sport figures to gain inspiration, look at those who make a difference in other peoples lives!

Baseball is not a sacred sport as some purists like to paint it. Its just another facet to make a living. Its not what we do in this life to make us great, its what we do for others to help them succeed.
Stop looking to sport figures to gain inspiration, look at those who make a difference in other peoples lives!

The Yanks will pay A-Roid a 6 million dollar bonue if he breaks B Bond's record - I hope they negate the 2003 year and sue him for fraud!

Poor pathetic SUX fans - I don't even need to say it do I? Well, ok I will. What a classless bunch of boorish kids gleefully celebrating a 5 year old non-story that has nothing to do with now. But you will use any excuse to not deal with the fact that you are a losing franchise who is but insignificant background noise to the Yankees 26 World Championships. There are no more classless fans then SUX fans - no more pathetic a ballpark than the rusting metal relic that is Fenway - no more incompetent management than SUX brass who never get their man and get made the fool while trying to do so. It's going to be fun to watch a crippled, feeble Ortiz, Varitek and Lowell get 98 mph gas under their double chins by Burnett and Joba.

WHO CARES!!! YOU FOOLS! WHO CARES!!!!! WE ARE IN A NATIONAL TAILSPIN, AND YOU ARE WASTING OUR TIME WITH THE OPIATE OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS! YOU ARE LESS THAN THE GARBAGE DUMP THAT IS TMZ. CURSE YOU!!!! BOSTON GLOBE = FRAUD. YOU HAVE SOLD YOUR SOULS... AND FOR WHAT, BECAUSE ONLY 'TARDS BY YOUR PAPER. EVERYONE ELSE CAN GET IT FOR FREE ONLINE. JUST LIKE YO MAMA... DAAAAMMMMMNNNNNNNN. FRAUDULENT BOZOS.

OBJECTIVELY... THESE OVERPAID PRIMADONNAS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A BUNCH OF MADDOFS. THEY MAKE THE SAME MONEY, CHEAT JUST AS MUCH, AND BENEFIT OUR REPUBLIC JUST AS LITTLE. TRAITORS. RED SOX ARE JUST AS CULPABLE. MAKE NO MISTAKE. THIS IS THE TIME FOR A NATIONAL RECONING, AND WE ARE NO LESS GUILTY THAN ANYONE ELSE... EXCEPT MAYBE THOSE D-BAG YANKEES.!

MLB is no dfferent than the WWE. It's a joke. I haven't watched a game since the '80's

A is for Asterisk

I'd love to see people holding up giant " * " signs every time A-Rod bats at Fenway.

Go on!!

Or maybe " * - Rod" shirts?

As for owner John Henry, when the hell is he finally going to re-issue Clemens" #21 to a deserving member of the Red Sox. To keep that uniform number in drydock is an absolute disgrace to all Red Sox fans.
Posted by SeaBeachFred

SeaBeach Fred, I couldn't agree more. Who in Boston cares about Clemens? Just another meat head who left town a bum instead of a hero.

Baseball is for fat and lazy people. Boring sport played overpaid flab. They are all on roids!!!

Will A-Rod be suspended by the Yankees? Hey, old man Steinbrenner is a convicted felon, so what the hell

Guess that leaves Hockey as the only sport left that players take pride in their league-MLB=Juiced-NBA=tattooed Thugs and NFL=Gangstas w/ guns

NHL= quality civic leaders who help out w/ their community (except for what happens on the ice stays on the ice)

Every league has cheaters but MLB has encouraged for decades

unfortunately for baseball and its fans this problem has been going on for quite some time. Whether or not they were marquee players remains to be seen and really is a mute point. Sports athletes because of their competitive nature have always and will always look for ways to get an edge over their opponents. The real problem is that baseball knew and decided to look the other way because these players were making the league huge amounts of money. until the powers that be are able to ensure that a "zero-tolerance" policy is in effect this issue will never go away.. If i knew i would be banned for life for 1 offense i wouldn't chance it

#93: "So A-Rod used 'roids? Big freakin' deal. He and 90% of MLB players have used and are using them. No one cares but jealous loser redsux fans (like the motormouths at ESPN) trying to make a little hay with this non-news. The playing field is level because they all do it -- especially that truckdriver redneck catcher for the bosux. What a loser he is."

As opposed to the power hitting (hmmm?), Dumbo-eared, no chin catcher the Yankees have?

This is not a Yankee/Redsox issue or chanting Aroid at Fenway in June, its much Bigger thatn that!!!! Baseball is trouble and they better do something quick!!!

Bud Selig is a joke! Why has it taken almost 6 yeasrs to get this news. Selig has buried his ignorant head in the sand and wished this steroid issue would just go away. He's displayed NO leadership whatsoever. He made $17-18 MM last year, please tell me For What? I do agree with one of the comments above that a few Red Sox players sure seemed guilty to me and Nomar is one of them. His pattern of injuries and lack of HR production when he should have been in his prime look very suspicious to me. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Manny's name came up in the future. His erratic behavior is enough to raise suspicions.

"Poor pathetic SUX fans - I don't even need to say it do I? "

Poor insecure Yankee fans. They have SUCH a neurotic need to show up, over and over, on Red Sox blogs to whine and bleat.

A-Roid took (takes?) steroids. And you still have a third-place team. Deal with it.

In the long run this is a bigger issue than A-Fraud and the Yankmes, but not now! Right now, it's all A-Fraud and the Yankmes, all the time! Let the abuse begin! Scumbag team with sleazeball cheating players! Words to live by: YANKMES SUCC! A-FRAUD SUCCS!

that was brilliant danalogue. Are you a surgeon? So eleqouent, and insightful.